The moon rose and the sun set. The surging river had long since calmed, but the clamor along its banks continued. Even a steady autumn rain that evening failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the rubberneckers.
Lying in the room, he heard raindrops tapping softly against the window, with noisy voices faintly audible in the distance:
"Absolutely incredible..."
"Even Martial Ancestor Ye Sheng probably wasn't any better back then..."
"Hua Ruyue is definitely Xie Jinhuan's lover. Not only did she withdraw to let her man compete, she was also the second one to rush up and help him just now..."
"Who was the heroine in black who got there first? I couldn't see her face through that veiled hat, but her figure and bearing were no worse than Heroine Hua's..."
"Who else could she be? Another sweetheart, obviously. A man like Young Hero Xie has older women lining up to pamper him..."
"Darling Xie~ Darling Xie..."
Xie Jinhuan had abused his body so severely that he blacked out before he even hit the ground. When his Divine Sense awakened again, he was already in an elegant room with incense burning. The room was quiet, but there seemed to be hundreds or thousands of people gathered outside the residence. He had no idea where he was or how much time had passed.
"Gooji?"
Perhaps noticing that he had awakened, the pitch-black Big Coal Ball landed beside his pillow and craned forward to inspect him. Clamped in that mouth was a withered vine, torn apart out of boredom until only a short section remained...
"Holy shit-?!"
A piercing shriek erupted in the room!
Xie Jinhuan bolted upright from his sickbed as though at death's door, caught the wretched servant, and carefully picked up the vine to inspect it. It turned out